Step 2: Melt your CD

Take the cd and melt it over your stove, BE VERY CAREFUL! I found that you can easily hold the cd with a fork, the goal is to make the cd as wavy as possible. Do not hold the cd to close to the flame or it will burn and the reflective side will begin to bubble and peel.

Step 3: Prepair the box

Cut one side of the box off and mark an X with a marker where the motor will be. Cut the X with scissors and push the motor up through the box from the bottom, it should fit snug.

Step 4: Glue the piece of plastic and the CD to the motor

Glue the piece of plastic your going to use to the top of the motor. Make sure it is centered. Once that has dried, glue the
cd to the piece of plastic. Since the cd is now wavy it may be tricky to glue, this is why strong glue is important.

Step 5: Time to start the show!

Connect the battery to the motor, put on your favorite music, and enjoy. You'll be sure to amaze your friends!CAUTION: I suggest you use eye protection until you are sure where the beams will go. Depending on the shape of the cd and speed of the motor the effect will vary. Posted by Laser Community member: FathomBoy91

For one of my laser shows, I bought one of those reflective silver emergency blankets that u can get for under $5 in the camping section of walmart, etc. I cut a piece about 1'x1', crumpled it to give it texture, then loosely wrapped it around a ping pong ball. i mounted that on a very slow motor and pointed my laser at it. All of the wrinkles gave a pretty spectacular light show. come to think of it...i suppose i coulda just used aluminum foil...Lol!

man you must be nocturnal to be up at 2 am. any way, you can but its better if you get one that can spin really fast to really slow witiot buning it. i used one that was rated for only 24v but i hooked up to 50v and it still works!! and that was 2 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about this: mount your laser(s) onto the the diaphragm/dust cap of your speakers(s) and point it/them at the CD. You could also remove the diaphragm/dust cap from dead speakers, make a permanent mount directly on the voice coil, and run them parallel with your regular speakers. By mounting the CD/motor(s) on the ceiling at an angle and pointing your laser(s) up at it, you can cover your whole ceiling with a laser light show without worrying about blinding anyone.

What about if you removed a speaker from an amplified speaker enclosure and connect the wires that went to it to the motor instead? And maybe while you're at it connect the other speaker to the laser? That would give an awesome light show, especially if you have some good stereo audio to play through it.

Everyone- the link that aixiz_lasers posted here is dated 2005. We are currently about to enter 2008 making this 3 years old. Wicked is totally different from 3 years ago. SakuyasLove- I was holding the laser as a friend filmed it to show how the effects change depending on the angle you're pointing the laser.

This is probably a really stupid question, since I am the only one asking, but I didn't see you use the laser in the build so is this something you set up stationary away from the unit pointing at the CD?

Yes, as stated you can use any laser you want. Wicked Lasers are definitely not the crappiest lasers on the planet... I'm very happy with the lasers i have received from them... They are expensive because of quality... Yes.... Rave Party indeed!

You could rig up two of them to reflect on each other. Then, you could use a pot (-entiometer) to control the speed and make weird patterns. Reverse the spin of one or the other and make other patterns. I'd go for Hot Glue for step 4, since it's more suited for space-filling, since it's a wavy cd

Thanks everyone! I haven't tried it with fog because i don't have a fogger but i did try with a bit of smoke from blowing out candles a couple times... there is really no difference but I'm sure fog would be fun... Wicked commented me on the forum and said i should call it Wicked Light Show... does anyone know if changing the name will take it out of the featured section?